If you're an OEM building machines with traditional centralized control panels, a significant portion of your build cost, field service exposure, and warranty risk is sitting inside that cabinet. Most of it never appears as a clean line item. It shows up later as wiring errors, commissioning rework, troubleshooting time, service calls, and intermittent faults that are expensive to diagnose in production.

This white paper makes the business case for decentralized IP67 connectivity architecture as a financial decision, not a technical preference. It shows where traditional centralized wiring costs accumulate across the build, commissioning, field service, and warranty, and explains how moving signal connections from the cabinet to the machine can reduce manual terminations, improve build consistency, simplify troubleshooting, and reduce reliance on scarce skilled labour.

The argument isn't that centralized wiring is wrong for every application. Cabinets still have their place. The issue is that many OEMs have never fully calculated the total cost of traditional machine wiring across the machine's full lifecycle. Once they do, the conversation changes from component price to total machine cost, reliability, and long-term competitiveness.